Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson well fortified in the outer gardens and may eventually and Sophomore Gone Levett to the sidelines. Fred Hockel played in Keyes place at shortstop throughout most of the Holy Cross game after Art Johns was driven off the mound back to his regular post at the keystone sack. "Snake" Keyes has been struggling with a rest batting slump which has found his average dipping down around 100 for the 11 contests he has played in. Heckel's fielding seems to stack up favorably with the "Snake's," and he should outhit him by quite a few percentiage points
Swede Linden, a converted outfielder, is holding forth at first at present, and inexperienced Sophomore Jack Orr, who didn't even play Freshmen ball, is at the keystone sack. Weak-hitting Ev Woodman has the call at short, and footballer Cottone is at third. Behind the bat the Indians have no worries when Captain Joe Urban is operating, but capable reserve backstops are scarce in Hanover...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
Arrested on suspicion of grand larceny, Eric Pinker appeared in a police lineup, jaunty in sack suit and bowler, to plead not guilty, to be confronted by "indications" that Romancer Oppenheim was not his only dissatisfied client. Finding that he had a good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other...
Stuck with the refugees, French authorities adopted methods calculated to help "persuade" them that they would be better off almost anywhere else. Typical rations were one loaf of bread daily for six men, a sack of rice for 400 men. Sanitation has been nonexistent. Open latrines have been dug in the camp sand and all modesty about nature's functions has long ago disappeared...